(n.) A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(2) Antibodies by the papain method were detected 41 of the women at the time of delivery (22 Rh-positive babies and 19 Rh-negative ones).
(3) In contrast, phospholipase A2 treatment followed by papain digestion cleaved a fraction of these polypeptides.
(4) Rates of digestion were in the order, pepsin approximately equal to trypsin much greater than papain.
(5) This peptide yielded the same products as neurotensin when submitted to digestion by carboxypeptidase A or papain.
(6) This was accomplished by sequence studies on the intact peptide as well as on its chymotryptic and papain-generated fragments.
(7) Reduced articular cartilage thickness in the MR images of papain-treated knees corresponded to changes in cartilage proteoglycan content.
(8) Five of the intermediates are of the form N-(methyloxycarbonyl)-X-glycine-C(= S)S-papain, where X is L-phenyl-alanine, D-phenylalanine, glycine, L-phenylglycine, or D-phenylglycine.
(9) We examined AMT with regard to (1) its papain activity; (2) its ability to digest meat cubes in vitro; and (3) its effect on rabbit esophageal mucosa.
(10) Application of the improved procedure of enzyme coupling to macroporous cellulose particles gave a water-insoluble derivative of papain having further enhanced proteolytic activity.
(11) After papain treatment and lectin chromatography, gamma-aminobutyric transport activity was eluted with N-acetylglucosamine.
(12) Tumor membrane Hemolytic Factor (mTHF) was inactivated by treatment with papain, suggesting that it is a protein.
(13) Removal of cells from the beads is possible by papain treatment.
(14) For example, in the pH region around 5-6, the reaction of cathepsin B is about 10 times faster than that of papain, 15 times faster than that of stem bromelain and 6 times faster than that of ficin.
(15) We also show here for the first time that the S1-S2 junction in gizzard myosin can be cleaved by chymotrypsin and that this cleavage (observed in papain-produced S1 devoid of the regulatory light chain) is also temperature-dependent but insensitive to nucleotides and actin.
(16) In the major product obtained after the action of papain, the first three N-terminal residues of form I had been cleaved, whereas at the C-terminal end the treated enzyme lacked five residues.
(17) Spin echo sequences were performed in the coronal and sagittal planes at 0, 24, 48, and 72 h after intra-articular injection of papain to obtain T1, proton density, and T2-weighted images.
(18) This method is very sensitive, the smallest amount of kininogen that causes significant inhibition of papain is established to be 0.01 micrograms.
(19) When the FcE receptor-positive RPMI-1788 cells are treated with tunicamycin and then with papain, a suppressor factor(s) for human IgE synthesis is released.
(20) Incubation of the complex between cystatin 2 and papain with an excess of cystatin 1 resulted in slow displacement of cystatin 2 from the complex.
Papaya
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of the world's cotton and soy are genetically modified and other crops including maize, papaya and rapeseed are benefiting from this new technology.
(2) The allergy questionnaire (atopy, drug allergy, use of papaya, occupational history did not identify sensitized patients.
(3) To examine whether long term occupational exposure to ethylene dibromide (EDB) affects semen quality a cross sectional study of semen quality was conducted among 46 men employed in the papaya fumigation industry in Hawaii, with an average duration of exposure of five years and a geometric mean breathing zone exposure to airborne EDB of 88 ppb (eight hour time weighted average) and peak exposures of up to 262 ppb.
(4) The quantitative separation of chymopapain from papaya latex has been carried out by chromatography on Amberlite IR-120 (Hg2+).
(5) The 3'-terminal 2,561 nucleotide residues of the severe HA strain of papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) was determined.
(6) Papain, a proteolytic enzyme obtained from papaya was found inhibitory on few facultative pathogens.
(7) The traditional use of ten plants can be explained by pharmacologically active principles: Adansonia digitata, Azadirachta indica, Carica papaya, Cassia tora, Fagara leprieurii, Guiera senegalensis, Khaya senegalensis, Mangifera indica, Psidium guajava and Voacanga africana.
(8) A procedure is described for the purification of a previously undetected cysteine proteinase, which we have called papaya proteinase IV, from spray-dried latex of the papaya (Carica papaya) plant.
(9) The smaller filterable particles were generally more susceptible to inactivation, did not survive autoclaving, and were inactivated by papaya protease and lipase.
(10) Ignorance of the scale of the challenge can sometimes be bliss, he added: “You can be halfway up the mountain before you realise what the challenges are.” Stapleton’s keynote speech was followed by a panel discussion by the owners of three very different businesses: Joanna Montgomery, who founded Little Riot , which makes Pillow Talk wristbands; Nick Edwards, founder of software company Papaya Resources ; and Arpana Gandhi, who founded Disarmco , a company that has developed a safe way of disposing of landmines and other unexploded ordnance (explosive weapons).
(11) The enzyme has a high degree of sequence identity with papaya proteinase III, chymopapain and papain (81, 70 and 67%, respectively), and is clearly a member of the papain superfamily of cysteine proteinases.
(12) Protease omega from Carica papaya L. has been purified and crystallized.
(13) The primary structure was determined by sequencing of native protein and the peptides obtained by proteolytic cleavage with beta-trypsin, papaya proteinase IV and by chemical cleavage with cyanogen bromide.
(14) Chymopapain shares 126 identical amino-acid residues (58%) with papain and 141 (65%) with papaya proteinase omega, including the three disulfide bridges and the free cysteine in position 25, required for activity.
(15) The petroleum ether, alcoholic, and aqueous extracts of 5 indigenous plants, known to have antifertility activity in female rats and mice (Areca catechu Linn, Carica papaya Linn, Daucus carota Linn, Mentha arvensis Linn and polygonum hydropiper Linn), were evaluated for their possible antiovulatory activity in rabbits with copper-induced ovulation.
(16) Carica papaya latex inhibits the growth of Candida albicans.
(17) The results indicate that unripe fruits of papaya interrupt estrous cycle and induce abortions.
(18) The method has been adopted official first action for extraction of light filth from whole leaves of alfalfa, papaya, and spearmint.
(19) Guava (Psidium guajava) and pawpaw (Carica papaya) markedly increased Fe absorption (0.126-0.293).
(20) With this technique, papain containing 1 intact catalytic site [thiol with high reactivity towards 2,2'-dipyridyl disulphide (2-Py-S-S-2-Py) at pH4] per mol of protein is readily prepared both from dried papaya latex and from commercial 2xcrystallized partially active papain.